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Friday, August 15, 2014

Hey, Mayor Joe, Can I Have A Bike Repair Station For the Community Path? My Birthday Is On Sunday :)

After walking Fresh Pond on Monday, I noticed this Bike Repair Station by the restrooms. What a cool addition to the Community Path this would make, don't you think?So, considering my birthday is Sunday, I was wondering if I could get some consideration from Mayor Joe to include one on the Community Path or in Lexington Park for use by Community Pathers?The station has a great design that allows users to fill up tires and includes several tool options for all those crazy things that can happen to your bicycle when you're pedaling around.If this design isn't good enough...could one of our Artisan's Asylum crafts-people come up with a better design for Villen use?If we want to be the most bikeable place on the planet, it would be nice to have convenient options like this to keep our bikes in tip-top shape.

Make it a string quartet so that all involved can hear the "fight" because of those bicyclists who bring the critique upon themselves; such as the one who sent my grandmother to the hospital while she and a friend were walking the path.He brushed her aside when attempting to pass them both.

Asking the mayor to:... "add some violins to play for people who are always trying to pick fights against bicyclists."....You can include the Mayor and city government officials and police as "trying to pick fights against cyclists...." (good luck with that).... by what Courtney posted below as a lead item, as an effort by the powers-that-be who recognize the safety problems some bicyclists continue to present for pedistrians on sidewalks.

Walking on the Community Path is tantamount to walking on a sidewalk.

Have you noticed the city has not painted bike lanes on sidewalks; only on streets.

Ward 5: I messed up. My intent was to reference the readers to what you put up as a lead item on Monday, August 11 entitled: "City officials aim to curb cycling in business districts." More so the last paragraph there.

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